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What Are You Playing This Weekend?

The weekend is for starting Red Dead Redemption 2 because you fell asleep before it launched last night, because you are an old man. I never played the first Red Dead because I didn’t own a console, but I always wanted to. I read about the game a whole lot—highfalutin academic papers weren’t quite the…

My Red Dead Redemption 2 Playthrough Has Already Gone Way Off The Rails

I’m about to go away for a week, vacationing far from my PS4. I’ve been trying to use the last few days to get the most out of the early copy of Red Dead Redemption 2. I think I’m doing it “wrong,” but having a great time along the way. Lately I’ve stopped advancing the…

Track: Kenshi Yonezu | Artist: Flamingo | Album: TEENAGE RIOT Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

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Sasha Tudvaseva is a freelance artist from Russia. You can see more of Sasha’s work at her ArtStation page.

Red Dead Revolver, The 2004 Game Where It All Began

Back in the year 2000, Angel Studios in San Diego began development on a video game Western. They were making it for Capcom, the Japanese publisher of series like Street Fighter and Resident Evil, and I think it’s safe to assume not a single person involved could have predicted what would happen next. An action…

Twitch Streamer Locks Himself In A Cage For 30 Days [UPDATE]

It began with a joke. Twitch streamer Johnny_now resolved to make a mad dash toward his fitness goals ahead of his 30th birthday, but he kept stumbling. He got into a good exercise routine, but couldn’t quit overeating. Then he injured his back and fell headlong back into his vices. “I joked around,” he told…

The “All Your Base” Game Had 32 Secret Japanese Endings

Zero Wing, an old shooter most famous for its “All your base are belong to us” intro, was presumed (at least among Westerners) to have 3-4 different endings. Turns out only the English language version has three; the Japanese one has 35, most of which are absolute nonsense. Legends of Localization dug into the game…

Check Out This Fantastic Fallout Cosplay

At DragonCon earlier this year, there were enough Fallout cosplayers around for photographer So Say We All to run a little themed shoot for the series. You can see the results below. I’m still not sure that Tunnel Snake didn’t just walk right out of the game.

My Quest To Be Gay In Assassin’s Creed Odyssey‘s Ancient Greece

Ever since it was revealed that you could have same sex romances in Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, I’ve been chomping at the bit to be gay in ancient Greece. It’s turned out to be harder than I thought. In the fifth grade, my school went whole hog on ancient Greece. In our overstuffed school, we called…

The Vermin Tide

Patrik Rosander is an artist at Fatshark, where he’s worked on games like Warhammer Vermintide II You can see more of Patrik’s stuff at his ArtStation page

Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Acts Like An RPG, But It Doesn’t Go Far Enough

The other day, Assassin’s Creed Odyssey hit me with a real slobberknocker: It told me that a family I’d decided to save from impending slaughter earlier in the game was carrying a disease that ended up spreading to a whole island. My character, Kassandra, was immediately distraught. “We can go back anytime you want,” another…

Track: Big Jet Plane (The Original Memphis Recordings) | Artist: Primal Scream | Album: Give Out But Don’t Give Up – The Original Memphis Recordings Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

B-Boy Recreates Smash Bros. & Overwatch Moves

This is Martin Cochingco, a man able to take a bunch of ridiculously exaggerated video game animations and somehow recreate them in real life. Here he is recreating some select Smash Bros. victory animations, from Bayonetta to Sonic to Captain Falcon to Green Mario. And here he is with some friends doing some Overwatch animations:…

Tree Queen

Toraji is an artist based in Tokyo. You can see more of Toraji’s work at her ArtStation and Instagram pages.

It Takes Two To Cosplay As Doctor Strange

This is wrussell9 cosplaying as Doctor Strange, getting more than a little help from the Cloak of Levitation, aka his sister elliebabygurl

Track: Heart Station | Artist: Utada Hikaru | Album: Heart Station Kotaku Soundtrack is a selection of the stuff we’re listening to at the moment.

The Art Of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey

It’s one of the biggest, prettiest games of the year, so it’s a treat tonight to be able to share some of the work that went into the creation of Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Below you’ll find a ton of art from Odyssey’s production, from characters to environments to 3D to animation to promotional. It’s not…

How A Twitch-Owned Wiki May Be Inflating Streamers’ Views

Twitch streamer Chris “Bognogus” Steinert was live on camera, reading an article about space exploration game No Man’s Sky on Gamepedia, online gaming’s equivalent of Wikipedia, when he discovered his own livestream playing at the very bottom of the page. Steinert was streaming his galactic wanderings to an audience of 3,183 viewers. One of them,…

Shadow Of The Tomb Raider Gets Review Bombed For Going On Sale So Soon

Shadow of the Tomb Raider is, to hear people (including Kotaku’s Stephen Totilo) tell it, pretty good, despite some questionable narrative decisions. Last week, however, it committed a crime that some Steam users decided couldn’t be forgiven: a 34 percent off sale. Cue the review bombs. Shadow of the Tomb Raider came out on September…

Other Player’s Assassin’s Creed Odyssey Photos Inspire Me To See Its World

I’m really loving Assassin’s Creed Odyssey, even if it took me a while to get to it. One of the features that is unexpectedly enhancing the game for me is being able to see all the pictures other people are taking with photo mode. When it comes to game, I usually know what I don’t…